78 mins: A clean sheet will be satisfying for England as they prepare for two home games with Ireland and Wales. Brian Moore dishes out the man-of-the-match award to the second half’s sole try scorer, Mike Brown.

77 mins: Home fans find their voice. There can only be one reason: a streaker. “An idiot,” parps the BBC commentator. Refusal to show streakers on TV these days prompts the surreal sight and sound of Murrayfield’s home contingent sounding excited as England prepare to score. But they don’t, conceding a penalty in the process. It sounds like the streaker has been nabbed.

75 mins: Cusiter kicks clear from deep inside his territory and England have the line-out. They launch another attack from a central position, spinning it wide right via Billy Twelvetrees. Eventually Scotland tackle England out into touch. Henry Thomas now comes on for Dan Cole.

74 mins: Farrell kicks into the corner, with more points beckoning. Home supporters boo as ‘Swing Low’ gets an airing. England’s line-out is messy, though, and they do well to regain possession. Danny Care now heads off and Lee Dickson comes on.

70 mins: Ch-ch-ch-changes … England: Tom Youngs on for Dylan Hartley, Billy Vunipola off and Ben Morgan on. Scotland: Jonny Gray on for Jim Hamilton, while Murray Lowe takes his leave. I missed who took his spot.

Jonny May making a break. A key man in this second half. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images

66 mins: England are looking the stronger team, much as the 20-0 scoreline would suggest. Mako Vunipola and Lawes make punishing charges, before the busy May looks to make another cut through. Scotland are on him this time, but another phase beckons …

64 mins: Scotland ball now on halfway. They look to launch an attack through Dunbar, but England are tough in the tackle … up to 10 phases now and Scotland are still on halfway. Johnnie Beattie finally makes some headway, but England stay strong. Changes: Scotland – Max Evans on for Tommy Seymour. Greig Laidlaw off, Chris Cusiter on. For England, Mako Vunipola takes Joe Marler’s place in the front row.

61 mins: England are dominant. May’s toes tip around two tacklers and he’s clear. Mike Brown, fresh from his try, gets the ball on that same left touchline and looks to feed inside towards Chris Robshaw. A Scottish hand blocks … forward, so it’s going to be an England ball.

Conversion (Farrell) Scotland 0-20 England

Try (Brown) Scotland 0-18 England

59 mins: England have made little use of their man advantage – Dunbar will be back dreckly. This looks better, though, and it’s Jack Nowell out by the left touchline. He drives through a tackle and offloads to the touchline-hogging Mike Brown, and he scampers in, almost right under the posts.

Mike Brown runs through to score England's second try. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images

57 mins: When the ball comes back to Brown shortly after, he breaks the gain line into Scottish territory. A great break. Owen Farrell then kicks to touch and Scotland will have a line-out by their own 22.

Billy Twelvetrees of England clings on to Ryan Wilson. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images

55 mins: Scotland’s lineout is ugly and Courtney Lawes wins the ball for England. But the scrappy nature of the game continues and England turn the ball over. Scotland kick deep and May is sent right back to his own try-line, from where he spreads the ball and England can clear. But Scotland now have the ball in England’s half … a chip kick from Laidlaw is disappointing, needlessly kicking to Mike Brown, who takes a fair catch and he boots very long.

53 mins: Scotland, a man down on this Murrayfield quagmire, are right up against it. England are pushed back after a spill, but the hosts then get a hand in the ruck and it’s another England penalty. They kick to touch for a second successive time. That’s Scotland’s 12th penalty conceded (five by the visitors).

Sin bin (Dunbar) Scotland 0-13 England

52 mins: Another brilliant dash from May pierces the Scotland back-line after England were returned possession on the halfway line. A try looks on the cards but last-gasp tackling denies him. Illegally, mind, and Alex Dunbar is shown a yellow card.

48 mins: The ball is spun right … and then in heads left, to Jonny May, who cuts inside and darts deliciously past two tacklers. He’s brought down by the 22. In the second phase, a Scottish hand gets on the ball, but knocks on. England ball.

40 min Farrell dances through a terrible defence and offloads to Burrell running a good support line once again. He gets to within a metre of the line and the support piles in. The defence does too though and it’s held up! Half time.

39 min Farrell kicks a poor penalty just 20m up front. Launchbury peels from the back and passes to Care, who looks to grubber it into the 22 but it’s blocked off. Lamont clears and England have a lineout inside the Scotland half.

34 min Quick lineout from Scotland and quick thinking from Weir. He puts a deep cross-kick in for Lamont to chase, knowing it’ll hold up in the mud. It does, but not enough and England have a lineout on their own 22.

Penalty (Farrell) Scotland 0-13 England

28 min The lineout is overthrown and England go out to the left, where May steps inside. England get the penalty as Scotland go off their feet at the ruck. Farrell stabs the ball through but there’s nothing on, so back we go for what should be an easy three points under the posts, 10m out.

25 min Denton takes at the back of the scrum and carries well again. A couple of phases and Denton has it on the left and again it’s a good carry from the impressive number 8. Stuart Hogg then knocks the ball over the top for a lineout to England just outside their own 22.

21 min Here come England again, carrying well down the left and consistently breaking the gainline. It comes inside for Twelvetrees and he steps, but then Farrell’s pass is too firm for Burrell, who knocks on as he looked to go through.

England fans before the game. All we say is don't judge other English people for it. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Missed penalty (Farrell)

19 min England’s backs get a rare glimpse of the ball. Brown is tackled and Lamont boots it out of the ruck from the England side. It’ll be another shot at goal for Farrell from about 38m on the right.

18 min Seymour dances through a gap in midfield to cross the 10m line. Weir then puts a poor kick into the arms of May, who kicks into the Scotland 22 and Weir’s return kick goes into touch still inside his own half.

Conversion (Farrell) Scotland 0-10 England

Try! (Burrell) Scotland 0-8 England

Robshaw takes the lineout and here comes the maul. It goes down but Nowell’s dummy run sells the defence and Burrell takes it, bursting through and stretching over. Two tries in two for the Saints man.

13 min England get a penalty at a maul between halfway and then Scottish 10m line. Farrell kicks to touch inside the 22, another good kick from hand. This match is going to come down to whichever team is physically stronger, and that’s England.

7 min Good take and carry from a high ball by Denton. It’s very slow and stodgy, so Weir fires a good low kick across field. The pitch is so bad that the ball nearly holds up on the floor for the chasing Seymour.

5 min Twelvetrees knocks on as he looks to step on the Scotland 10m line. Scotland clear as advantage is called over and Brown carries it back up towards halfway. After two phases Moray Low fails to roll away and Farrell, tight to the touchline, prods it up to the 22.

1 min Scotland kick off to what sounds like a great atmosphere in Edinburgh. Care clears and Denton charges through a tackle. It’s passed back to Weir, who looks to cross kick but puts it out on the full. England lineout just inside their own half and Lawes takes it.

Great news

It’s absolutely peeing it down there. This does not bode well at all. The worm-infested pitch is already looking like the kind of amateur’s field I played on in my school days and will almost certainly end up being a disgusting mud bath within the first ten minutes.

Right, well the Ireland v Wales game was deeply disappointing; a technically excellent snoozefest. Does England v Scotland fill you with confidence of something more enthralling, urgent and engaging? No, me neither. But then it couldn’t be worse, could it?

Preamble

Afternoon folks. Welcome to part two of what could be one of the great sporting weekends of 2014. We’ve just had Ireland v Wales, where [insert what happened here as I’m writing this earlier this morning, you know, to save time]. Now we have the old/auld rivalry renewed, the Calcutta Cup match between Scotland and England.

The Scots are looking for a much-improved performance from last weekend, when they were honest and solid but lacked penetration and got beaten up at the lineout and breakdown. They have a potentially decent back line with several talented players and if – and this is a big if, given it’s yet to happen – they click then there’s the potential for them to do real damage.

For that to happen though they’ll have to deal with England’s ball carriers. Courtney Lawes and Billy Vunipola were outstanding for England in Paris, and England’s defeat was largely self-inflicted. Regardless of what he says, Stuart Lancaster c*cked the substitutions up, especially when he took Dylan Hartley off on the hour as he seems to do in every match. For all Tom Youngs’ ball-carrying ability, he can neither hook nor throw and is a liability in the set piece as we saw in the lead-up to France’s winning try. Lancaster says there is no science to his substitutions, but they are beginning to feel prescribed.

England should win this, but Murrayfield is a nasty place to go and try to win. Expect this to be close.